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==What is Octave?== | ==What is Octave?== | ||
Octave is a high-level interactive language, primarily intended for numerical computations that is mostly compatible with Matlab. | Octave is a high-level interactive language, primarily intended for numerical computations, that is mostly compatible with Matlab. | ||
Octave can do arithmetic for real, complex or integer-valued scalars and matrices, solve sets of nonlinear algebraic equations, integrate functions over finite and infinite intervals, and integrate systems of ordinary differential and differential-algebraic equations. | Octave can do arithmetic for real, complex or integer-valued scalars and matrices, solve sets of nonlinear algebraic equations, integrate functions over finite and infinite intervals, and integrate systems of ordinary differential and differential-algebraic equations. | ||